Death toll from Bangladesh mosque explosion rises to 24

People carry out the coffin of a victim of the gas pipeline explosion, at a hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh (Al-emrun Garjon/AP)

The death toll from a gas pipeline explosion in a mosque outside Bangladesh’s capital rose to 24 on Sunday while authorities were examining how a leakage caused the accident during evening prayers.

A seven-year-old boy who went to pray with his father in the Narayanganj district was among the dead. The father is in a critical condition.